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i'm still laughing about the sandwiches and underwear biggrin:

i wanna dive man, id be the 1st brother from my town that has done it and didnt say" man crazy white boys love it"

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Originally Posted by Vance1

Yeah, I jumped with the 152nd Airborne Squad into Eastern Iran. Its not as fun as it is hyped up to be. But I got the Iron Cross for bravery under Freindly Fire. SO ti all evened out, plus I had a great CO, John Milla.

THATS ME!!! biggrin:

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Originally Posted by Vance1

sounds like one of our assault stories biggrin:

I skydived once, but I did a tandem jump. If you are doing five hours of ground school, you are probably going to do a solo? Its a hell of a rush. I wasnt nervous at all until they opened the door at 12k feet. Then I got nervous all at once, but I didnt have very long to think about it. The free fall was the best part, but its over in a blink. The parachute ride down gives you a chance to catch your breath.

christ, it's now 7am in the morning.....

2 hours til jump school......

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remember! always check your chute to see if there's underwear and lunch in it

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap!!!!!!!!! What an experience!!!! I don't care what all of the others say about skydiving, whether it being a mediocre experience or what, but WOW!!!!! I recommend that all of you guys here do it!

We had a jump school on the ground which lasted about 4 hours - we had a break in the middle for lunch. After writing a little quiz on what we learned (i got 29 out of 31), we geared up.

We go to choose our own jumpsuits from a variety, and lucky for me, i found a German paratrooper jumpsuit among the suits! It was a camo suit, with the german striped flag on the shoulder with a ton of zipper pockets. I tell u, i felt like a paratrooper. The actual jump was amazing. The scariest part was standing underneath the wing exposed to all that wind..... when i let go, my adrenaline skyrocketed, then my chute deployed after like 3 seconds, and i drifted peacefully to the ground while YELLING AND SCREAMING in elation! YAAAAAA!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!

Now i got to wait til thursday to obtain a copy of the video of our jump.

how much did all this cost

How high up were you? 3 seconds of freefalling doesnt seem very high.......

it cost $107 cdn. and i was in the air for almost 1.5 minutes.... we were 3000 ft in the air... it was an experience i will never forget!

thats $107 including the jump and first jump IAD school

any chance of ripping that video so we can watch you shit your pants biggrin: